Details of that meeting with Mother Teresa more in Delhi than two decades ago are sketchy. But the particular moment is very clear. It must have been late October; winter was making a guest appearance in a city bathed in dust and just out of months of torturous summer sun.Continue Reading
I hope each of those flying to the Vatican this weekend, will choose not to have Indian citizens pay for it.
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The killers of a lovable priest in France will find amazing kindred spirits in India.Continue Reading
It was April 1975. The diminutive figure in the white and blue sari was bent and fragile, yet the hand extended was firm and warm. The private meeting on the upper floors of the Philadelphia archdiocese will be forever etched in my memory. Mother Teresa, the beloved Catholic nun fromContinue Reading
Euphoric expressions of our love and admiration for Mother Teresa began several months before her canonization was announced by the Vatican on March 15 this year. People across the world also stormed heavens for her ‘speedy’ Canonization. The Social Media, Church personnel, educational institutions, Hospitals, Charity organizations have been busyContinue Reading
Jesuit provincial of Darjeeling recalls his chance meeting with Mother TeresaContinue Reading
Last Thursday marked a momentous and joyful day in Church history as the Vatican announced that His Holiness Pope Francis had formally established a new Eparchy (Diocese) for the Syro-Malabar Catholic faithful in Great Britain and named its first Eparch (Bishop) as Monsignor Joseph Srampickal currently working in Rome. AnContinue Reading
One of the first things Mother Teresa ever told me was, “Tony, if you’ll just listen, you’ll find that there is something beautiful about each of these men.” And, before long, I could see it. I loved them all. And I lost them all. But through the years I learntContinue Reading
This appeal has been sent to Pope Francis through the Papal Nuncio in IndiaContinue Reading
I wish everybody could be at the Vatican on Sept. 4 for the remarkable occasion of Mother Teresa’s Sainthood. There they would meet some of the most caring people from across the world. I am fortunate to have met many of them. I first talked to Mother Teresa herself atContinue Reading
